"protect intellectual property"? As long as this activity DOES NOT involve software patents where the abuse of the system is just ridiculous. The whole IP concept needs to be re-thought. As it stands now it is actually a roadblock to innovation, allowing the entrenched entities to protect their turf from possible innovative competition. The primary purpose of IP now appears to be blocking anybody, do they have better ideas or not. It does not matter if it is a better phone or not, it cannot be made if it is an oblong square...

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My Mom the Radio StarMax MaxfieldPost a commentI've said it before and I'll say it again -- it's a funny old world when you come to think about it. Last Friday lunchtime, for example, I received an email from Tim Levell, the editor for ...

A Book For All ReasonsBernard Cole1 CommentRobert Oshana's recent book "Software Engineering for Embedded Systems (Newnes/Elsevier)," written and edited with Mark Kraeling, is a 'book for all reasons.' At almost 1,200 pages, it ...